it's almost like the greatest sin is not learning the lesson from the sin.

Right.

There's a very difficult passage in the Talmud in tractate Avodah Zorah.

The tractate Avodah Zorah deals with a lot of various interesting things, but very in the beginning it discusses this sin that we mentioned about King David with Bathsheba.

The story is that he saw her and he desired her and had relations with her, although she was married at the time.

But The Talmud elsewhere says that because her husband, Uriah Achiti, was a soldier and out in war, they would send a divorce document, a get, to their wives prior to going out.

So legally, halakhically, technically they weren't married.

I mean, the tshuva remind us we're so much better than this.

Is it important for a bacher to walk around in a hat and jacket?

This question I've been asked many, many times, and I think there are two aspects to the question.

I think there is the halachic aspect to the question, which primarily is related to davening, davening with a hat and jacket, and then there's the more general the idea of a Jewish way of dress, which is not necessarily halachic per se.

So to briefly touch on the question from a halachic perspective, the idea of wearing a hat and jacket is not something brought explicitly in halacha per se.

The Mishnah Brewer does touch upon it, that based on a certain way of dress that people had in those days, that that was a sign of respect.

The Gemara tells us that there's an obligation when a person davens, to be dressed properly, respectfully, the way you'll dress in front of a person of authority, a person of prestige, how much more so you should dress yourself up respectfully.

The exact mode of dress would depend on the minik ha-medina, based on the custom of where a person lives.